Tag: Dark Roast Darker Consequences
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CHAPTER 06: POURING PEACE
Cedar Grove breathed a collective sigh of relief. After weeks of magical mishaps, flaming lattes, levitating patrons, and accidental elemental summoning, the town’s caffeine…
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CHAPTER 01: THE RESIDUAL ROAST
Cedar Grove’s supernatural caffeine saga wasn’t over. It was just brewing in the background, until now. The Residual Roast was a new coffee blend…
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CHAPTER 02: ESPRESSO ECHOES
It started with a low hum. Every day at exactly 3:33 pm, the espresso machine at Harmony Café would let out a soft and…
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CHAPTER 03: THE FROTHENING
The milk steamer was the first to go rogue. One morning at Harmony Café, it hissed without being touched, then foamed a jug of…
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CHAPTER 04: THE HAUNTED ROAST OF CLORVEX
Every October, Cedar Grove hosted a modest fall festival with cider stands, a pie throwing contest, and local artisans selling handmade cups shaped like…
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CHAPTER 05: CURSED COLD BREW CLUB
It started as a secret. Every Thursday night, a select group of Cedar Grove locals snuck into the back of Harmony Café after hours…
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CHAPTER 06: CEDAR GROVE DECAF DAY
It began as a joke. Exasperated and sleep-deprived, Jo begged, “Let’s try one day. Just one day without cursed caffeine, sentient foam, or demonic…
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CHAPTER 01: FREEZER-FANGED AND HALF-CAFFEINATED
At 5:07 am, Jo opened the café freezer and screamed. This was not unusual. The freezer door had a tendency to slam back like…
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CHAPTER 02: BLOOD TYPE: AMERICANO
Sev had been undead for several centuries. He had danced in Venetian masquerades, debated Descartes in a candlelit tavern, and once briefly dated a…
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CHAPTER 03: THE FANG CLUB
The first rule of the Fang Club was that you talk about the Fang Club. Constantly, loudly, and preferably on social media. Jo stared…
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CHAPTER 04: MOCHA RESURRECTION
It started with the smell of burnt cinnamon and necromancy. Jo was elbow deep in espresso grounds when Matteo burst into Harmony Café holding…
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CHAPTER 05: STAKEHOLDERS’ MEETING
Cedar Grove Town Hall smelled like stale donuts, floor wax, and civic doom. On the emergency agenda: Item 1: Vampire rightsItem 2: Cafeteria blood…
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CHAPTER 06: RISE AND GRIND, YOUR MAJESTY
At exactly 4:44 am, the espresso machine screamed. It wasn’t a hiss nor a hissy pfft but an ancient and full-throated ghost infused scream…
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CHAPTER 01: MOONLIGHT SAVINGS TIME
Jo always said the Harmony Café didn’t have normal business hours and that it had haunted suggestions of time, but today, even the espresso…
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CHAPTER 02: COVENANT AND CHILL
Sev said he had been undead for at least six hundred and sixty-six years but he couldn’t remember to be honest. It was so…
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CHAPTER 03: BLOODLINES & BOTTOM LINES
Matteo had faced demons, time loops, sentient espresso foam, and one aggressively flirty vampire queen, but nothing, absolutely nothing, prepared him for vampires in…
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CHAPTER 04: NOCTURNAL ADMISSIONS
Mira had always felt a little watched. Not in the usual “someone’s staring at you while you sip herbal chamomile” way, but in a…
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CHAPTER 05: GARLIC & CONSEQUENCES
Jo thought her lunch break would be simple. Garlic focaccia, a side of peace, and maybe a nap. She was wrong. Though it still…